Paul Sargent

Paul Sargent has worked as a financier in institutional and private commercial real estate lending for the past thirty years. His areas of expertise include loan origination, underwriting, portfolio-asset management, development, structured finance, and the secondary loan market. Sargent has been involved in the funding of over $1 billion worth of real estate loans in his lending career.

Institutionally, Sargent has placed loans with more than fifty different organizations, including life companies, pension funds, commercial banks and private money sources. Along with being a correspondent to life companies, he has also served as an Advisor to Arizona’s second largest pension fund ($6 billion in assets), on loan participations. Previously, Sargent was a senior officer with Bridge Financial Corp. (an AMEX public company), Chase Bank (New York and Arizona), Mellon Bank and Pickrell Mortgage.

With private lending, Sargent has managed various family office and partnership funds, along with investing his own monies. He is a co-founder and principal of Oasis Financial (www.oasis-financial.com), a direct private lender and structured finance company, licensed by the Arizona Department of Finance. Specific private loans funded have ranged from $50,000 to $29,700,000. 

Paul received his MBA degree from Arizona State University after obtaining a BA from Utah State University.